Merchandise package



April 21, 1942.

D. TRAUM msncmnnxsn PACKAGE Filed Nov. 21, 1939 INVENTOR. flan ad Trazuw KM 1-; @6- A'ITORNEYS Patented Apr, 2i, 19%

MERCHANDISE PACKAGE David Traum, New York, N. Y., assignor to Dritz- 'Iraum Qompany, Inc, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 21, 1939, Serial No. 3it5,i34

1 Claim.

This invention has to do with packaging of merchandise and while not necessarily restricted thereto, the present invention is disclosed as a package for slide fasteners or analogous merchandise.

The invention is directed to a package in which the merchandise is attached to and carried by a mounting such as a folder bearing advertising matter and illustrated instructions which mounting is enclosed in a sealed transparent outer wrapper or envelop and the purpose of the present invention is to make provision for a removable stock control tab which is designed to be Fig. 1 is a face view of a merchandise package constructed in accordance with one form of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal sectional view taken approximately'on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line 83 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing by characters of reference, l0 designates a mounting for the merchandise II which mounting, as herein disclosed, is preferably in the form of a comparatively heavy paper folder to one of the outermost leaves of which the merchandise H is attached and which merchandise is herein illustrated as a slide fastener. r

The folder I0 together with the merhandise attached thereto and carried thereby are enclosed within an outer wrapper or'envelop I! of transand the opposite end edges of which are adhesively secured together such as by crimping the same as at it and M. The overlapped longitudinal edges of the 'outer wrapper or envelop I2 are adhesively secured to provide a sealed enclosure or sheath for housing the mounting and the merchandise.

In this form of the invention a band i5 of a length coextensive with the width of the "Cellophane wrapper is adhesively secured to the exterior thereof and extends around the folder. The'said band is of a width relatively narrower than the length of the "Cellophane wrapper and is disposed adjacent the upper end thereof. 'The band, adjacent the overlapped terminal portion. is provided with parallel lines of perforations it and I! defining a removable tab i8, the rear surface of which tab is not adhesively attached to the Cellophane" wrapper or envelop i2 and which bears on its outer surface stock control indicia. In use, when the packaged merchandise is sold, the salesclerk removes the tab l8 without affecting the sealed condition of. the packaged tion, and a band of a length substantially coextensive with the width or the wrapper and having a pair of spaced transversely extending weakened lines adjacent to and spaced from one end thereof defining a removable tab adapted to bear stock control indicia, said band surrounding the wrapper transversely thereof with the opposite ends of the band disposed in overlapping relation, the underlying end of the band bein disposed between and secured to the overlapping portions of the wrapper adjacent the longitudinal edges thereof, the overlying end portionof the band on opposite sides of the tab being secured to the wrapper, the tab portion being free and unsecured ior removal so as to leave the remainder of the band in secured surrounding relation to the parent material such as Cellophane," the longiwrapper when the tab is removed.

tudinal edge portions of which are overlapped DAVID TRAUM. 

